Exodus 25:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. ”

Exodus 25:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A mercy seat of pure gold - (Compare Exodus 37:6-9 .) In external form, the mercy-seat was a plate of gold with the cherubim standing on it, the whole beaten out of one solid piece of metal Exo...
Exodus 25:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 25:10-22 P. The Ark ( cf. Exodus 37:1-9 ). Three stages of tradition may be distinguished with regard to the Ark (pp. 105f., 123f.): ( a) In JE, and in the earlier historical books, i...
Exodus 25:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

toward . Looking toward the blood of propitiation. Compare Exodus 12:13 and Joshua 2:18-21 . See especially Exodus 37:9 .
Exodus 25:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherub...
Exodus 25:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof. No JFB commentary on these verses.
Exodus 25:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Vessels of the Sanctuary Chapter s 25-31 are taken up with prescriptions regarding the Construction of a Tabernacle, i.e. a tent, to form the visible dwelling-place of Jehovah in the midst of...
Exodus 25:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high. — The two wings of both cherubs were to be elevated and advanced so as to overshadow the mercy seat, and, as it were, protect it. In the Egypt...
Exodus 25:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XXV. THE SHRINE AND ITS FURNITURE. Exodus 25:1-40 The first direction given to Moses on the mountain is to prepare for the making of a tabernacle wherein God may dwell with man. For...
Exodus 25:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Ark and the Mercy-Seat Exodus 25:10-22 The Tabernacle was full of symbolical teaching of which the full meaning is unfolded in the Epistle to the Hebrews, where we are distinctly told that...
Exodus 25:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here we begin consideration of the transactions of the forty days. Moses received instruction concerning a place of worship for the nation. It is important that we attempt to understand what this mea...
Exodus 25:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Perhaps these Cherubims were designed to represent Angels, as prying into the precious mysteries of redemption 1 Peter 1:12 ; Hebrews 1:14 . Some have thought that the Cherubims mean to represent m...
Exodus 25:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the cherubim shall stretch forth their wings on high ,.... From whence it appears they were in the form of winged creatures, as the seraphim in Isaiah's vision, and the living creatures in those...
Exodus 25:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the cherubims shall stretch forth [their] wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces [shall look] one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherub...
Exodus 25:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The cherubim ( cherubim is the plural of cherub , not cherubims ) were fixed to the mercy-seat, and of a piece with it, and spread their wings over it. It is supposed these were designed to repr...
Exodus 25:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

WILLING OFFERINGS FOR GOD'S SANCTUARY (vs.1-9) The law has been declared to Israel, with its stern ordinances and regulations. Now the Lord instructs Moses in a matter that is in striking contras...
Exodus 25:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

10 And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. ...
Exodus 25:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Towards God, who is supposed to sit there, whose face the angels in heaven always behold, and upon whom their eyes are fixed to observe and receive his commands; and towards Christ, the true propitia...
Exodus 25:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Purpose of the Ark ( Exodus 25:15-22 ). a Into the Ark was to be put the Testimony which Yahweh will give them ( Exodus 25:15 ). b A mercy-seat or place of propitiation was to be made to c...
Exodus 25:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 25:17-23 THE MERCY-SEAT The Lord Jesus Christ is the true mercy-seat; the piece of temple furniture in the text is the shadow of which Christ is the su...
Exodus 25:20 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Exodus 25:10-11 . And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereo...
Exodus 25:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 25:2 . That they bring me an offering. We now enter on the tabernacle, a hallowed work, a figure of the church, and emblem of the heavenly glory. This mystical temple was not new: it had ex...
Exodus 25:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

Put the mercy-seat above upon the ark. The ark and the mercy seat It was a leading and distinctive feature of Jewish worship that no image was to represent Jehovah, and yet the Jews were taught...
Exodus 25:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE PATTERN OF THE ARK .—Moses is first shown, not the pattern of the tabernacle, but the patterns of those things which it was to contain—the ark, the table of shew-bread, a...
Exodus 25:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Ark of the Tabernacle
Exodus 25:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

cherubims shall Exodus 25:18 1 Kings 8:7 1 Chronicles 28:18 2 Chronicles 3:10 covering Ezekiel 28:14 toward Genesis 28:12 Isaiah 6:1-5 Ezekiel 1:20 Matthew 24:31 John 1:51 1 Cori...
Exodus 25:20 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Seeing Christ in the Ark of the Covenant Exodus 25:10-22 INTRODUCTORY WORDS After God had given commandment unto Moses to build the Tabernacle according to the pattern, which He had shown unto...

Exodus 25:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Exodus 25:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 25:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Exodus 25:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Exodus 25:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Exodus 25:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 25:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Exodus 25:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Exodus 25:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Exodus 25:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Exodus 25:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Exodus 25:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Exodus 25:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Exodus 25:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 25:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 25:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exodus 25:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Exodus 25:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 25:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Exodus 25:20 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Exodus 25:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 25:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

Exodus 25:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Exodus 25:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Exodus 25:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 25:20 - Wells of Living Water Commentary